okay well before ryan joined the church before he became the lead pastor he was a missionary all over the world uh most keenly in turkey and cyprus and when i went to visit last year ryan was just sharing some of the stories of what god was doing in turkey and what god was doing in cyprus and i just said to ryan i just want to hear from you about this So we did a brief interview, just like 10 minutes, just asking him, you know, what was God doing? What's something that had a big impact? What's something really meaningful that maybe had a small numerical impact? And here's my chat with Ryan.

I have been now in the States for exactly a year.

Just the other day, we celebrated our year anniversary of returning after about 25 years in Brazil and Turkey and Cyprus.

And over the last 20 years in Turkey and Cyprus, I was especially focused on pastoring and ministry training.

So we were leading in Turkey a ministry training program for Turkish and Turkish-speaking Christians in a monastic community called Filipus, which we directed and established there in Ankara, in the capital of Turkey.

We were there in Turkey for 10 years.

We... developed that ministry training program and a coffee company to give our students in our ministry training program some business training and experience as part of that ministry training so that they can sustain themselves in ministry and be valuable, contributing to society as ministers.

What's the story of big impact you have for us?